Cinema: Tales with Stings

Made in Italy is a mosaic of ironic episodes that attempts to provide a
portrait of modern Italy. A good many of the scenes are merely blackout
sketches, some as brief as a minute: a beautiful girl stares wistfully
at a bridal gown in a shop window; the camera pulls back to show her
nun's habit. A group of starving peasants gaze at a wall poster reading
"Help India." An inquiring reporter asks a man without TV what he does
to amuse himself.

The man gazes at his pregnant wife and their eight children and roars
with laughter. An Italian and his...